This is Dave Edstrom's personal blog called Photons and Electrons. This blog is about technology, as well as some of my personal interests. I am the CEO/CTO of Virtual Photons Electrons. I was the CTO for MEMEX for three years, the President and Chairman of the Board for the MTConnect Institute from May 2010 to January 2014 and prior to that I spent 23 years at Sun Microsystems.

"This isn't the first study that has found that Fox News viewers more misinformed in comparison to others. Last year, a study from the University of Maryland found that Fox News viewers were more likely to believe false information about politics."

Is MSNBC any better? I have not seen any studies, but would be very interested to know...

A week ago on Wednesday the 16th I was in Mountain View, CA and drove out to have lunch with my aunt Dorothy who is also my godmother. She lives in Glen Ellen which is the heart of wine country and a beautiful little town.

Below is my aunt with her youngest son - Lynn.

It was a beautiful day and Lynn took Dorothy and me for a ride. Below is just one of the wineries we saw.

We had lunch across the street from Lynn's wife Janie's (seated next to Dorothy) workplace. We had a very nice lunch at The Black Bear Restaurant in Sonoma.

"One of the most prominent global warming skeptics is changing is his tune. Richard Muller,
a physicist who spent two years trying to see if mainstream climate
scientists were wrong about the earth's climate changes, determined that
they were right, the Associated Press reported. His findings showed the temperature had risen about 1.6 degrees since the 1950s."

It sill absolutely amazes me the number of people who insist the global climate change is not real. They need to stop watching Fox News. Of the current Republican candidates, only Jon Huntsman seems to have the courage to embrace science when he tweeted, "To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy." Too bad that the Republican base is so anti-science, because Jon Huntsman seems a very capable candidate who could capture the all important central part of the voting block.

Mr. Muller said that exactly how much humans contribute to such warming is difficult to calculate. But, asthe Economist pointed outlast year, even if the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is off by a factor of five in its reckoning of the climate’s sensitivity to an eventual doubling of the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, that still leaves only a 50 percent chance of relatively minor temperature change. The developed world and large developing nations, meanwhile, continue to pump immense amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. The Energy Department released an analysis this month concluding thatglobal carbon emissions in 2010 increasedby the largest amount ever, to a higher level than the IPCC’s worst-case projection.

About Dave Edstrom

This is Dave Edstrom's personal blog called Photons and Electrons. This is the same name of the blog I had for Sun Microsystems for many years. I am the CEO/CTO for Virtual Photons Electrons, LLC. More info is available at http://VirtualPhotonsElectrons.com I was the CTO for MEMEX for almost three years. More information on MEMEX is at http://MemexOEE.com